Yuk Yee Leung

Talks

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations

DateEventTitle
April 2022ADSP Functional Genomics Consortium Kickoff meeting FunGen-AD Standardization Workgroup Overview.
April 2022Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Program Review, Virtual.GCAD Overview.
Nov 2021Invited Presentation, Institute on Aging (IOA) and Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) Retreat, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USAIdentification of small RNA signatures for ADRD via high-throughput sequencing.
April 2021Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Discovery Workshop, Virtual.ADSP – A Big Picture View
March 2021Selected platform presentation, The 15th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases and Related Neurological Disorders, AD/PD™ 2021, virtual.Characterizing transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease noncoding risk variants identified by aggregating results across multiple meta-analyzed genome-wide association studies.
Oct 2020Invited Presentation, Biomarker and Companion Diagnostics Virtual Conference.Unravel the molecular mechanisms of non-coding genetic variants in Alzheimer’s Disease using a scalable high-throughput pipeline.
April 2020Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Discovery Workshop, Virtual.ADES collaboration overview
Feb 2020Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) annual meeting, Philadelphia, USAAlzheimer’s Disease Variant Portal (ADVP) – Harmonized Genetics Data and Evidence Collection for AD.
July 2019Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) meeting at AAIC, Los Angeles, USAINFERNO analyses on AD GWAS datasets.
July 2019Invited platform presentation, Immunity and Neurodegeneration Professional Interest Area (PIA) of the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Los Angeles, USAInferring the noncoding regulatory mechanisms underlying genetic susceptibility contributed by different CSF endophenotypes in AD.
April 2019Invited platform presentation, Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, Boston, USAVCPA – A Cloud-Based SNP/Indel Variant Calling Pipeline and Data Management Tool Used for Analysis of WGS/WES for the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project.
April 2019Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Discovery Workshop VI, Bethesda, USAGenome Center for Alzheimer’s Disease.
April 2019Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Discovery Workshop VI, Bethesda, USAInteractions with related studies and datasets: ADES & TOPMed Joint Calling.
March 2019Selected platform presentation, The 14th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases and Related Neurological Disorders, AD/PD™ 2019, Lisbon, PortugalCirculating CSF small RNA biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease.
Feb 2019Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) annual meeting, Miami, USAInferring the shared noncoding regulatory mechanisms underlying genetic susceptibility to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Feb 2019Seminar, CNDR/ADC Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USAOmics analyses for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Jul 2018Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) meeting at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), Chicago, USAGCAD ADSP data production update.
Feb 2018Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Discovery Workshop V, Bethesda, USAThe Genome Center for Alzheimer’s Disease (GCAD).
Jan 2018Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) annual meeting, Philadelphia, USAGCAD update.
Sept 2017Seminar, Penn RNA group, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USAComputational methods for non-coding RNA structure and expression.
Jan 2017Presentation, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Discovery Workshop IV, Bethesda, USAGCAD/ADSP Production Workflow.
Oct 2016Plenary invited talk, IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), Atlanta, USABioinformatics tools for RNA-seq.
Jan 2014Seminar, Junhyong Kim Lab of Single Cell Systems Biology, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USADeveloping machine learning algorithms for RNA-seq Experiments.
Dec 2013Seminar, Genomics Strategic Research Theme and Centre for Genomic Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongAnalyzing RNA-seq Experiments Using Machine Learning Tools.
Aug 2013Invited talk, 3rd EITA Young Investigator Conference (EITA-YIC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USACoRAL: a machine learning approach to predict non-coding RNAs from small RNA-sequencing data.
July 2013Selected platform presentation in session Biomarkers, Novel Biomarkers in Blood and CSF, 25nd annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), Boston, USAIdentifying multi-analyte CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in a multi-cohort study.
June 2012Seminar, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongIdentifying Protein Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Nov 2011Selected platform presentation, 6th IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics (CiB), Pittsburgh, USAMulti-class classification using covariance among binary classifiers and its application to multi-class classification using the analysis of tumor microarrays.
Aug 2011Invited talk, 1st EITA Young Investigator Conference (EITA-YIC), Harvard University, Cambridge, USAMCAB – Multiple Tumor Class Classification using Covariance among Binary Classifiers.

Teaching and Mentoring

DateEventTitle
2022-nowLi-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaUndergraduate student mentoring. Student: Justina Lam (Spring 2022, Fall 2022)
2021-nowLi-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaUndergraduate student mentoring. Student: Kevin Hu (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022)
2020-2021Li-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaUndergraduate student mentoring. Student: Hoang Le (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021)
2019-2020Li-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaUndergraduate student mentoring. Student: Lauren Kleidermacher (Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer, 2020).
July-2019Li-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaSummer Graduate student mentoring. Students: Chia-lun Liu, Wei Fu, Pei-Chuan Ho, Kai Teh Tzeng (Summer 2019).
March 2015Guest Lecture for GCB537/BIOL537/CIS635: Advanced Computational Biology, The University of PennsylvaniaSupport Vector Machine and Random Forest.
2013-2014Li-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaUndergraduate student mentoring. Students: Andrew Hong (Fall 2013), Ainesh Ravi (Spring 2014).
March 2013Guest Lecture for GCB537/BIOL537/CIS635: Advanced Computational Biology, The University of PennsylvaniaReview on Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms.
2010-2011Li-San Wang’s Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of PennsylvaniaMaster student mentoring. Student: Eunji Kim (Fall 2010, Spring 2011).

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
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